Two Qustions: RSync Server load? Atomic Updates?

Andre Majorel
Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:40:29 -0000

On 2007-08-22 11:38 -0700, doxburger wrote:

> 2) I will need to update my RSync server on a regular basis.  I have
> been using rsync to send data to the rsync server (makes sense
> right?).  Now and then a user has been downloading from the rsync
> server, as I am updating the data set, and they get a mix  of the old
> and new update.  This completely breaks my application.  How is this
> handled normally?  --

If you have the disk space, you could try --delay-updates to
shorten the inconsistency window.

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